EU as a Global Actor

general courses

In Three Parts of the Lecture, one can deal with:

1. Theoretical and practical description of the EU as a new kind of actor (player, subject, entity) on current international scene.

2. Deep and penetrating analysis of the EU relations with all major partners, like the US, Russia, China, and others, as weel ass roles pyaed by the EU on the Global Scene.

3. Speculative research of current world affairs, after recent crisis on global markets (2008 and aftermath), and in global security system (2014/15 and aftermath), including some new possible scenarios of further development on global arena of the era of dominating globalization and information forces.

The Lecture is divided into three sections/chapters and 15 detailed issues as follows;

Chapter I

1. EU as the subject on the global arena

2. The essence of the European integration and its development

3. The role of the EU in globalization process

Chapter II

4. The US - EU relations

5. The EU - China relations

6. The Eastern Partnership and relations with Russia

7. The EU in Africa

8. The EU in Latin America

Chapter III

9. The EU in global economy

10. The role of the EU in social process

11. High-tech in the EU (including climate change, environmental challenges etc.)

12. Military role of the EU and security challenges

13. The role of the EU in Global Order (BRICS, G-20, Emerging Markets)

14. EU in the Strategic Triangle with the US and China

15. The Future of the EU

Students obligations/workload:

lecture - 15 h

reading in foreign language - 60 h

preparation to the lecture - 30 h

preparation to the exam - 75 h

total - 180 h

Manuel Castells, The last Part of the Trilogy, "The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture", entitled: "End of Millennium", Blackwell, Oxford 2000 (Polish version available, PWN, Warsaw 2009).

Bogdan Góralczyk, "Chiński Feniks. Paradoksy rosnącego mocarstwa" (Polish version), Sprawy Polityczne, Warsaw 2010.

Bogdan Góralczyk (ED.) "European Unio9n on the Global Scene: United or Irrelevant?", Centre for Euriope, University of Warsaw 2015.

Andrew Hurrell, "On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society", Oxford University Press 2008.

Dariusz Milczarek, "Unia Europejska we współczesnym świecie" (Polish Version, CE UW, Warsaw 2005.

Andreas Staab, "The European Union Explained: Institutions, Actors, Global Impact", Indiana University Press 2008.

Several aims to be achieved as a result of this series of lectures (as seen by the Lecturer):

- To show the students the dynamics of the new world (after 2008 financial cirisis on global markets and security criss on the borders of the EU since 2014/15);

- To define the role of the EU on contemporary stage of international affairs;

- To show the EU as seen from outside;

- To make the students more sensible for the impact of the EU on current world affairs;

- To show the EU as real subject of world affairs.

A written exam at the end.

Participation in the Lecture - crucial, as there is no handbook for the subjects touched during this presentation, while the exam only from the relevant issues presented during the Lecture.

No practice.